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The Seal of the United States, 

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TTbe IReverse Sibe of tbe Seal 
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GET INTO LINE ! GET INTO THE TREND OF 
SELF-EVOLUTION ! 

GET INTO THE TREND OF THE PIONEERS 
OF THE SIXTH RACE ! 

GET INTO THE TREND OF THOSE WHO ARE 

READY FOR THE REVERSE SIDE OF THE 

SEAL OF THE UNITED STATES ! 



ii TT7HICH design includes the pyramid, the ancient 
* * "altar" spoken of by Isaiah the Prophet as 
in Egypt upon the borders thereof, — and its crowning white 
cap-stone and glory, the stone and shepherd of all Israel, 
Christian and Jewish, on the one side " — that is, the reverse 
side. 

Now it needs one, who is not only versed in the ancient 
lore, but who has himself come into this symbolism, to be 
able to read the reverse side of the seal. The reverse side 
must have been designed by a mystic, one versed in sym- 
bolism. 

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' Egypt, ' stands for the physical man ; and coming out 
of Egypt, as did the Israelites who had been in bondage in 
Egypt, means a higher state of evolution, and they were 
led out of this state of bondage ( to the lower self ) by Moses, 
who was born an Israelite, but who was brought up an Egyp- 
tian, and versed in all the Egyptian lore. 

Moses, was the man appointed to lead the children of 
Israel out of the flesh-pots of Egypt, into the * promised 
land, ' or in other words, out of the physical, into the spir- 
itual ; and it will be observed, that after the children of 
Israel came out of Egypt they sojourned 40 years in the 
wilderness under the training of Moses before they were 
prepared to cross the Jordan, the divide between the pure- 
ly physical man and the spiritual man. 

Now comes the question ; why was Moses not allowed to 
lead the children of Israel across the Jordan into the prom- 
ised land ? 

The solution is this : Moses had not evolved the higher 
spiritual faculties. Moses was a law-giver ; he was also a 
great magician, showing that he had developed all the lower 
group of psychic faculties, including all the Egyptian sor- 
cery and magic. Then Moses belonged to the base of the 
pyramid. The distance between the base of the pyramid, 

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and the crowning white cap-stone, the spiritual man, the 
higher group of psychic faculties, is symbolized in bible 
history as " the Jordan, " and in Theosophic parlance, 
" The Voice of the Silence " as " the moat, " and it is often 
referred to as the " great divide " ; when one has passed 
this ' divide' he stands on the " threshold of divinity. " 
Then to cross this ' divide, ' and to attain the crowning 
white cap-stone and glory required a spiritual leader ; one 
who had already attained a spiritual level, and one who had 
received the " white stone with a new name engraved thereon, 
which no one knows but he who receives it. " 

Therefore, Moses' work as a leader was finished, and 
Joshua was appointed to lead the children of Israel across 
the " Jordan " to the " promised land " symbolized by the 
crowning white cap-stone and glory. 

Now we will look at the reverse side of the Seal of the 
United States and compare its symbolism with that of the 
Wisdom Religion. 

The base of the pyramid stands for the Quarternary, the 
four lower principles, and the crowning white cap-stone, 
represents the triad or trinity— the three higher Principles 
— Atma-Buddhi-Manas ; and the evident ' divide ' or moat 
between the two is also called Antaskarana, you have to 

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sacrifice the personal self, the four lower principles, — to 
the SELF impersonal and thus destroy the " path " between 
the two — Antaskarana — the path of communication or com- 
munion between the personality and the higher Manas or 
Higher Self. 

Here then is the connecting link between true Theosophy 
and the reverse side of the Seal of the United States, and 
all true Theosophists ought to be able to see this. It is 
true that " the knowledge of symbolism and heraldry, con- 
sidered of old to be a part of an education, had passed 
from the halls of learning " before H. P. Blavatsky's time, 
" and with it the true understanding of the bible and its 
mysticism. " I have always felt that H. P. Blavatsky was 
deficient as a student of the bible ; and this accounts for 
the lack of harmony between the H. P. B. theosophy and 
the bible and Jesus' teaching, which has, in the hands of 
Annie Besant and C. W. Leadbeater, led to the assertion 
that " Jesus never existed, " and to the rejection of Jesus 
and the twelve apostles. 

Not so strange as it might seem, that at the time of 
the world's fair at Chicago, that the two paintings of the 
Seal, obverse and reverse, that the reverse side was turned 
to the wall, and the obverse, or eagle side, only to be seen 

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by the passing throng. 

But there is a spiritual law governing this, — the passing 
throngs were not ready for the reverse side of the Seal. 
But the time will come, if not now at hand, when the white 
stone will become the head-stone of the corner of our gov- 
ernment ; and herald her responsibility, her destiny and her 
mission to the world in proclaiming a new Religion in which 
all spiritual currents flowing from every religion shall meet 
in the perfection of the white stone teaching of individual 
spiritual unfoldment. Each one must attain for himself 
the white stone and its glory. 

Here again the reverse side of the Seal connects with 
Theosophy for America, in other words true Theosophy, 
the religion for America, having neither dogma nor doc- 
trine and which will apply directly to the evolution of the 
individual as the temple in which the soul gains its expe- 
rience and attains its — Liberation. 

The reverse side of the Seal of the United States, with 
its pyramid and crowning white cap-stone and glory, must 
needs be rejected, until such a time as a few individuals, 
at least, are sufficiently spiritually developed to compre- 
hend its full significance ; and are ready and able to stand, 
and each in himself become a spiritual Joshua. As one has 

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already said, " I think we do not any of us realize the won- 
derful work the Divine Life has done, and what will 
yet result from it I believe most fully that it has ushered 
in the finest type of Theosophy this world has yet seen. " 



THE REVERSE 5IDE OF THE 5EAL OF 
THE UNITED STATES: 

And its Symbolism, 
ii. 

^ "*Hk E SEE that everything in the Universe has an 
ty *f|I ^ obverse, or material side, and a reverse, or 
^k //^r spiritual side, — the hidden or invisible. 

When the Pharisees asked Jesus if it was 
right to pay tribute to Caesar, and they showed him a coin ; 
Jesus taking the coin asked, Whose superscription is this ? 
and they said, Caesar's ; and Jesus replied, Render unto 
Caesar, ( the material ) the things which belong to Caesar ; 
and unto God, ( the spiritual ) the things which belong to 
God, thus making a distinction between the material and 
the spiritual. 

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The same with the law of evolution ; the obverse side is 
the evolution of the material and physical ; and the reverse 
side, the law of reincarnation, is the evolution of the spirit- 
ual side ; but where shall we begin ? as evolution, the ob- 
verse and reverse sides extend back into the dim and misty 
ages ; when the morning stars sang together, might express 
in symbol the obverse side of creation ; and when the Sons 
of God shouted for joy, the reverse side : as Nature is dual. 

As said Krishna ; When any existence whatever is pro- 
duced, know son of Bharata ! that it exists by this union 
of matter and spirit ; and he who sees the Supreme Lord, 
(the Self) dwelling alike in all beings, the Imperishable in 
things that perish, sees indeed. 

In Theosophy we have the obverse and reverse side, 
though all theosophists do not claim this, as the obverse or 
material side is all they seem to see ; yet, there are The- 
osophists who claim, at least, that there is a spiritual side 
to theosophy, although in practice they ignore it. 

The symbol on the cover of Divine Life, the serpent 
swallowing its tail, is the symbol of the spiritual side of 
evolution ; and the interlaced triangle, the union of matter 
and spirit, also symbolizes the union of the Higher and 
lower Self ; the double lined triangle represents the Higher 

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Self, and the one with the heavy line the lower self ; and 
within the interlaced triangle, (the six-pointed* star) the 
all-seeing eye, or " third eye " ( the opening of the pineal 
gland ) which symbolizes the completion of the individual 
temple of man. 

" Know ye not that ye are the temple of the living God ? " 
Yes, but we first have to build that temple, each individual 
for himself, because it is a spiritual temple ; and the 
Builder of that temple is your own Higher Self : You, the 
personal self, have to gather the material, through your 
own experience, and your own Higher Self as the " Master 
builder, " and as the re-adjuster builds it into the spiritual 
body, thus forming the temple, which is not made with 
hands ; and it is a living temple because it is built out of 
live material, the very essence of your being ; and it is a 
continual becoming until it is completed, and it continues 
alive, It never dies. It, is that immortal part of you 
which, if not completed in one incarnation, passes on to 
the next incarnation and continues the building until the 
temple, or spiritual body, is completed, then, there is no 
further need of the physical body, and no further need of 
reincarnation, as the soul has completed its evolution in 
matter and gained its — liberation from matter. 

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Paul expresses the same fact in this wise : " When the 
mortal shall have put on immortality, — death is swallowed 
up in victory ! " There is no more death for the individual 
because for him there are no more incarnations. 

As Krishna says ; 

" He who truly knows my birth (in himself) and this 
divine work of mine, comes never more to birth again, 
when he quits the body : he comes to me, Arjuna ! * 

Now we come to the obverse, or eagle side of the seal 
of the United States — which has been amply set forth in 
Grace Kincaid Morels article,— The Seal of the United 
States, and Its Message " — which is the symbol of the 
material ; Government, Commerce, and all treaties and in- 
tercourse with other Nations, as well as its official use on 
all United States documents. Now this would seem to be 
all that was required of the Seal of the United States. 

Then, how did it happen that there should be, at that 
time, a reverse, or spiritual side of the Seal of the United 
States, with its Pyramid, and its crowning white cap-stone 
and glory ? It certainly did not * happen, ' but how was it 
that it should be designed at all ? Who was the designer ? 
and what was the spirit back of it ? It was to express 
this very thing, the union of matter and spirit ; and all 

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authorities upon bible symbolism agree that the white cap- 
stone belonged to an age yet to come, the culmination of 
man's existence here. Then, it would stand for the com- 
pletion of individual evolution, and — liberation from mat- 
ter. There could be no higher design, and it could only be 
embodied in symbol, but of course it would have its critics : 
"That the device adopted by Congress in 1782 is of so 
elaborate a character and withal so allegorical ; while as 
to the reverse side, however artistically treated, it can 
hardly fail to look otherwise than as the dull emblem of a 
masonic fraternity. " If it is a masonic emblem, why have 
not the masons rescued it from its obscurity ? Why have 
they allowed the white cap-stone and the crown of glory 
to be rejected, disowned, and the crown of ages to be laid 
away in its box ? Evidently the symbol of the Pyramid 
and its white cap-stone does not belong to the Masonic Fra- 
ternity ! Where then does it belong ? It belongs to a 
more spiritual Order, having neither dogma, doctrine, nor 
ritual, not secret, but sacred, and which will apply directly 
to the individual as a completed temple in which is housed 
his immortal soul. We find it too high for any of the fra- 
ternities, it must needs be purely spiritual, then, religious ! 
but what is Religion ; — but the spiritual evolution of man — 

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and this is all the Wisdom Religion claims. 

The most plausible meaning of this triangle is spiritual. 
The triad forming this emblem or triangle is, Father, Son, 
and Holy Ghost, ( in Sanskrit, Atma-Buddhi-Manas ) . And 
thus the triangle on the Seal is to show emphatically that 
the eye in the center is the eye of trinity. 

The " glory " or rays of radiant light is also here intended 
to symbolize Divinity. It is, as is well known, greatness, 
splendor, and glory of Providence ; and its significance 
on the Seal is the Eternal Light of Wisdom with which the 
Supreme Architect will guide, and lead the colonies. 

And, read aright, in the eternal light of Wisdom, it means 
to the individual, the all-seeing eye, or third eye, with which 
the supreme builder, — your own Higher Self — will guide 
and lead you in the — New Order of Ages — which is to be 
born. As the meaning of the Latin motto, Novus Ordo 
Seclorum signifies ; in conjunction with Annuit Coeptis — 
meaning " God has favored the undertaking, " or, God has 
prepared the way, in the law of the spiritual side of evo- 
lution. 

This was designed and written 100 years before very 
many individuals had reached the level of evolution where 
its significance could be understood and applied ; and we 

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believe that it refers to the Sixth Race which at that time 
was yet to arise. 

All those who have attained, or will attain the white cap- 
stone, triad, or trinity in this present incarnation, belong 
to the Sixth Race, ( I do not mean the sixth sub-race ) and 
when they have attained the One, the ' above ' they live 
therein ; they have become immortal, or in other words they 
have put on ( conscious ) immortality, there is for them 
no more death, after they have passed out of this present 
incarnation. 

In the reverse side of the Seal, we find the perfect sym- 
bol of the Seven Principles, the Triad and Quarternary of 
Theosophy. We not only find Theosophy for America ! 
but also American Theosophy for the United States ; a 
Theosophy that was symbolized on the reverse side of the 
Seal nearly a hundred years before H. P. Blavatsky 
" brought Theosophy, The Wisdom Religion, ( from India ) 
to America, " which is yet to proclaim the new religion in 
which all spiritual currents flowing from every religion shall 
meet in the perfection of the White Stone Teaching of 
individual responsibility. 

The one obstacle, or rock of offence, which stands in 
the way of the union of all Protestant churches, is the belief 

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in the vicarious atonement of Jesus ; that is, that Jesus 
died for humanity ! When Christians come to see that 
each individual must work out his own salvation — that is, 
his liberation from matter ; the lesser dogmas, church gov- 
ernment etc., will not stand in the way of the union of the 
churches, in sentiment at least. 

I do not seem to be able to close this sketch of the reverse 
side of the Seal and its symbolism, without again referring 
to the designer. We find in the history of the Great Seal 
that William Barton, M. A. was the one who originated the 
present device of the reverse side; and we find this sentence, 
" That every design submitted by Mr. Barton depicted the 
fundamental principles of the government — yet to be estab- 
lished. " / 

We see in Mr. Barton only the facade, or the instrument ; 
that, if he himself was not a Mystic or Seer, then, a 
Master stood behind him. Who was this Master, visible or 
invisible ? Who was the true designer of the reverse side 
of the Seal ? It could have been none other than — 
Thomas Paine, a Mystic and Seer ! 

We find in his " Rights of Man, " that he had in his 
minds's eye ; " A new order of Ages, " " The heaven's ap- 
prove " ; and this is the clue that leads me to believe that 

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Thomas Paine was the originator of the design of the reverse 
side of the Seal. But why was his name not mentioned ? 
Because he was at the time under the cloud of ecclesiastical 
disfavor ! 

In the Declaration, from which freedom sprung ; the 
natural rights of man are specified as Life, Liberty and the 
pursuit of Happiness — and religion left out. At that age, 
no one could have done this but Thomas Paine. Religion 
had battled against progress, against justice, against the 
rights of man for the space of seventeen hundred years. 
Paine raised his pen and stopped the onward sweep ; and 
he dared to frame a free government, pure from the dross 
of dogmatism ; and it is further said, " that, upon the 
Great Seal of this mighty nation, Paine left the memorial of 
his presence. " 

Quoting from an article on Thomas Paine which I wrote 
in 1903 or 1904 : — and read before the Secular League in 
Washington, D. C. : — 

" The pen is mightier than the sword, " 

* Twas the prolific pen of Thomas Paine 

That thrilled the blood of every soldier ; 

And fired his brain against subjugation. 

Paine' s " Crisis " broke on the world like Jove's thunder. 

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Paine' s " Common Sense " was the rallying cry 

That led a nation to birth and victory ; 

His words : " These are the times that try men's souls, " 

Became the watchword oj our army. 

Paine 9 s " Common Sense " turned the scale in favor 

Of separation from the English Crown; 

His " Common Sense, " lit the torch to the pile 

Whose blaze burmdaway the filial bonds 

Between Great Britain and America ! 

Must the m.erit and service of Thomas Paine ; 

Continue to glide down the stream of time 

Unrewarded by his grateful ? ? country ? 

/ stand here on this platform and proclaim 

Thomas Paine the greatest soul of his age ; 

I place his name first in the ranks of fame. 

This tribute comes from a woman's pen 

To supplement the eulogies of men ; 

I am willing to face pulpit or throne 

And stand by this, my conviction, alone . . . " 

I still feel the thrill of the thread that binds the name 
of Thomas Paine to the reverse side of the Seal of the 
United States ; and that " The New Order of Ages, " 
which " he had in his mind's eye " will prove to be the 

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Sixth Race of which we, The Independent Theosophical 
Society of America, are the Pioneers. 

The New Order of Ages. 

The New Order of Ages presupposes that there has been 
an order of ages which has completed its cycle ; and a 
New Order of Ages is to be ushered in. 

What is the principal factor in the Old Order of Ages ? 
In examining the past history of the ages, we find that the 
principal factor is ecclesiastical, that it was the dominant 
feature. Then, if the old order has completed its cycle ; 
ecclesiasticism is the factor which is to be left out of the 
New Order of Ages. And Thomas Paine was the first to 
recognize this fact and carry it into execution ; and for this 
offence he was " rejected of men " and disowned by the 
officials of the United States Government, and his name left 
in obscurity. 

But we thank God that Thomas Paine was not left with- 
out a witness, that upon the Great Seal of this mighty nation 
he left the memorial of his presence. And now when ec- 
clesiasticism is making great strides to again subjugate and 
dominate Eagle-land, it seems a fitting time to unveil the 
reverse side of the Seal. 

Paine, like Lafayette, left his country and came to this 

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and fought for liberty ; Paine, was the first and main insti- 
gator of Independence and the separation of the Colonies 
from the British Crown. To every school-boy the name of 
Lafayette is familiar, and stands high on the scroll of fame ! 
But where is that of Thomas Paine ? Unknown to school- 
boy, and unknown to fame. The slow tide has swept along 
year on year, and in this " age of reason " no hand is 
raised to turn the tide of public opinion. 

Then, it is to the reverse side of the Seal that we are to 
look for the explanation of what the New Order of Ages 
is to be. 

In the old dispensation, or, Moses and the Prophets, to 
which Jesus often referred, God was always spoken of as 
the Almighty, or, God Almighty, and was worshipped as 
such. There seemed to be no relationship between God 
and man. In the Christian dispensation Jesus brought God 
nearer to man and was the first to speak of God as the 
Father, or, our Father, but worship of the Father was still 
the main idea which was transferred to the worship of 
Jesus as the only Son of God ; and man occupied a very 
low level, but as time rolled on and man evolved he has 
gradually ascended to a higher spiritual level until he can 
no longer be dominated by ecclesiastical rule. He had be- 

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gun to stand out as an individual ; and to feel individual 
responsibility ; he was nearing that level where he would 
know that each individual must work out his own salvation 
or liberation ; that he cannot depend upon any vicarious 
atonement. This as a Seer, Thomas Paine foresaw. But 
how was this idea — so far in advance of the age — to be 
made known to the people ? how could it be handed down 
through the ages ? There seemed to be but one way ; and 
that was to embody it in symbol on the reverse side of the 
Seal ; there it would be safe, for it could not be read until 
such time as a few individuals, at least, had attained that 
level ; neither was it to be adopted by a Fraternity with 
closed doors ; — it was for the people. 

The white cap-stone, the completion of the pyramid, 
stands for the New Order of Ages, in which the individual 
raises himself to the degree where — " I and my Father are 
one. " 



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" The Heavens Approve " 
in. 
JF *%. HE New Order of Ages, which Thomas Paine 
^ ! ^ had " in his mind's eye, " would mean to the 
^a *$ secular reader only the ideal, the eye of the 
^ intellect, but that is only the surface meaning : 
the real meaning is "the third eye," the eye of the 
Seer, (the awakened pineal body). No individual ever 
attains Seership, or, faultless vision, until the opening 
of the pineal body has been attaned ; then fol- 
lows the lofty soul-consciousness of the seer, whose mystic 
" third eye " now becomes " a window into space " ; and it 
was through the " third eye n that Paine saw — A New 7 
Order of Ages — one hundred and forty years in advance 
of the age in which he lived ; and this fact alone would be 
sufficient to pronounce Thomas Paine a Master ! What is 
a Master ? but a Great Soul ! or, an advanced Soul ! one who 
has completed his self -evolution and attained the white 
Stone, the mark of — liberation, — and who again incarnates 
for a special purpose only. Such is Thomas Paine to all 
those who are near enough to his level to see with the eye 
of a seer. 

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Now let us look at the triangle on the reverse side of 
the Seal of the United States, and its crown of glory, which 
encloses the " all-seeing eye, " the eye of Providence, whose 
real meaning is the " the third eye. " 

The triangle is the symbol of Trinity, three in one, and 
one in three, the three sides being equal and inseparable. 
There is no other geometrical figure which will express the 
Trinity, — Father, Holy Ghost and Son, — or, in Sanskrit, — 
Atma, Buddhi and Manas. The Trinity is also expressed 
in terms of the Logos, first, second and third Logos. In 
the beginning was the Word ( Logos) ; and the Word ( Sec- 
ond Logos) was with God and the Word was God ; and the 
Word ( Logos ) was made flesh, or incarnated, and the three 
in one are inseparable ; but the creed makers and secular- 
ists think they can separate the Trinity as easily as they 
can separate one material object from another ; for in- 
stance, the Unitarians discard the Trinity and recognize 
only the Unit, that is, they remove Jesus from the Trinity, 
or supposed God-head, and make Jesus an ordinary man. 
Whereas, Jesus, as an individual is not and never was a part 
of the Trinity, as the Trinity is purely spiritual ; and even 
the Third Logos, or Manas does not wholly incarnate. 
" The three that dwell in glory and in bliss ineffable, now 

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in the world of Maya ( incarnation " ) have lost their names. 
They have become one Star ..." " When thou hast passed 
into the seventh ( Atma), happy one, thou shalt per- 
ceive no more the sacred three ( symbolized by the triangle ) 
for thou shalt have become that three thyself. " When 
thou hast attained that level thou wilt see with the " third 
eye, " or the mind's eye, the eye of the Seer. 

It is the spiritual or reverse side of Thomas Paine's 
immortal work, which has been ignored, that we would 
bring to the front ; as he has no longer need of eulogy, 
which to me at this time seems like " sounding brass and 
tinkling cymbal. " At the time I wrote my article, " Thomas 
Paine, Patriot, Reformer, and Martyr, " I did not know 
of the reverse side of the Seal of the United States ; and 
had I known it, I would not at that time have been able to 
see its spiritual significance, or to read its symbolism aright. 

However, at that time I made a strong plea for Thomas 
Paine's books to be placed in every library, and his part in 
the Declaration of Independence to be placed in our school 
books, side by side with that of Washington, Jefferson, 
Adams, Franklin, Madison and Monroe as one of the fram- 
ers of the Declaration of Independence. The need of this 
is made apparent by the fact that one of our Presidents, 

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even, was ignorant of the fact that Thomas Paine did more 
than any other one in bringing about the separation of the 
colonies — then thirteen states, from Great Britain and de- 
claring the Independence of the United States. 

I also made a strong plea for a monument to Thomas 
Paine to be placed in Lafayette Square, Washington, D. C. 
quoting from that article : 

" May the Secular League as one body, as one man, stand 
for right and justice, until the wrongs done to Thomas 
Paine are righted, " in the land his genius defended, and 
under the flag he gave to the skies, " and they see him 
stand in statue of stone, perhaps in sight of the Capitol's 
dome. In his hand " Age of Reason " and " Common Sense, " 
at his feet " Crisis " and " Rights of Man, " pointing his 
finger — in the name of Reason — to ecclesiastical bands as 
treason to the highest development of man. " 

However, I had neither influence nor means to help car- 
ry out the plan of erecting a monument to Thomas Paine 
at that time. The reverse side of the Seal has again 
brought the subject forcibly to my mind and the plan of 
the monument before " my mind's eye. " The base is to be 
an exact reproduction of the Pyramid on the reverse side of 
the Great Seal of this mighty nation on which Paine left 

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the memorial of his presence. It is to be four-square com- 
posed of thirteen courses of stone, to represent the thir- 
teen states ; and on the top a platform on which will stand 
a statue of Thomas Paine ; in his hand Crisis and Common 
Sense, at his feet, Rights of Man and Age of Reason ; 
and this monument is to be erected in Lafayette Square, 
Washington, D. C. 

One brother has already offered $ 500.00 to start a fund 
for the erection of the monument, and he adds : that 
" Congress should take this matter up. It would be most 
fitting to have a monument to such a great and clear vis- 
ioned soul. " 

Thomas Paine's vision of A New Order of Ages, can be 
ushered in only so fast as the scroll unfolds and individuals 
develop the higher principles. Many of the old forms of 
faith and superstition must be given up, and the individual 
learn that he must depend upon — himself, — that he must 
work out his own conscious immortality while in his physical 
body. 

Many of Thomas Paine's admirers, who think of him only 
as the Author-hero of the American Revolution, will be 
surprised to learn of the spiritual side of his marvelous 
work, as I was to see the cut of the reverse side of the 

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THE REVERSE SIDE OF THE SEAL OF THE UNITED STATES. 

Seal of the United States and read its spiritual significance. 
And we see the coming together of the spiritual currents ; 
how the undermeaning of the teachings of Jesus and Krish- 
na and the true in every religion, eternal life's pure waters, 
come together and mingle in the stream of A New Order 
of Ages. Let Christian Science, New Thought and other 
modern cults bring up the rear ; they will find the culmina- 
tion in the white cap-stone, the symbol of the teaching of 
individual spiritual unfoldment. 



THE THOMAS PAINE MONUMENT FUND 

Is now open for contributions. All checks and money 
orders made payable to Celestia Root Lang, 614 Oak- 
wood Boulevard, Chicago, 111., U. S. A. 

/ enclose $ towards the erection of a monument 

to the memory of Thomas Paine, to be placed in Lafayette 
Square, Washington, D. C. 

( Name ) 

( Address ) 



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THE REVERSE SIDE OF THE SEAL OF THE UNITED STATES. 

Each contributor will receive one year's subscription to 
the Divine Life Magazine, — the Official Organ of The 
Independent Theosophical Society of America, — and 
New Order of Ages ; — also, one copy of the Pamphlet, 
The Reverse Side of the Seal of the United States, 
and Its Symbolism, by Celestia Root Lang. 



TO=DAY, 

The 20th of December, 1916, the Second Anniversary of the 
founding of The Independent Theosophical Society of 
America, which has been waiting as though unfinished ; 
we now affix the apex or culmination in the White Cap- 
stone,— THE NEW ORDER OF AGES— which to-day is 
incorporated in The Independent Theosophical Society 
of America, and which has become the head of the corner. 
Therefore, we place it first, as true Theosophy is one of 
the spiritual currents which coming together form — 
THE NEW ORDER OF AGES. 

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The New Order 
of Ages ! 

THE INDEPENDENT THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY 
OF AMERICA 
Founded December, 20, 1914. 
By Celestia Root Lang 

PRESIDENT FOR LIFE : Celestia Root Lang, Editor 
and Publisher of the Divine Life Magazine, the Official 
Organ of The Independent Theosophical Movement. 

CHAIRMAN, SECRETARY AND TREASURER ; 
Harry Edward Richeimer, appointed by the President. 

Dues for one year's membership in The Independent 
Theosophical Society of America $ 1.00 which includes 
one year's subscription to the Divine Life Magazine. 

APPLICATION for membership may be made to the Cor- 
responding Secretary,— Celestia Root Lang, 614 Oakwood 
Boulevard, Chicago, 111., U. S. A. 



DIVINE LIFE 
The Pioneer Magazine of the 
Sixth Race 

A Monthly Publication devoted to the Sacred Science 
of the Self-Evolution of Man, edited and published 
by Celestia Root Lang, Author of ' ' Behold the Christ 
Within, ! " and " Son of Man, " or, The Sequel to 
Evolution ! For sale at all the leading Book Stores, 
News Stands, Hotels and Depots in the city. 
10 Cents a Copy. 1.00 a Year. Foreign 1.25. 

—Sample Copy mailed Free on application — 

The Divine Liee Press, 

(>14 garwood eoold, chicago, ill. 



Works by Thomas Paine. 



CRISIS, ( Paper Cover ) 25 

COMMON SENSE, " 15 

RIGHTS OF MAN, " 25 

AGE OF REASON, " 25 



THE REVERSE SIDE OF THE SEAL OF 
THE UNITED STATES 

AND ITS SYMBOLISM, 

By 

CELESTIA ROOT LANG 

PAM PHLET No. 1 showing the Spiritual side of The Great 
Seal of the United States will be forwarded at 5 Cents a 
copy. ....... 

THE DIVINE LIFE BOOK CONCERN 
614 Oakwood Boulevard, Chicago, HI., U. S. A. 

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